All 78 articles by Terry J. Allen
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U.S. Military Toxins: The Gift That Keeps on Killing
A tragic history of pollution continues in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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The Lonesome Death of Josh Dylan Pfenning
A homeless man kills himself at an Occupy encampment, underscoring America's widening chasms.
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CIA Boosts Vaccination Conspiracies
The agency's public health ruse to confirm Bin Laden's whereabouts caused collateral damage.
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U.S. Drug Shortage: Big Pharma, Big Phuck-Up
An under-regulated industry collapses in on itself; the sick pay the price.
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Global Land Grab
Fear of unrest and hunger for profit are sparking massive acquisitions of farmland.
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Cut Waste and Fraud, Not Medicare
Up to 30 percent of U.S. health care expenditures are wasteful, Medicare's chief actuary estimates, and Medicare could...
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Resistance Is Fatal
If compassion isn't reason enough for global policymakers to fund safe drinking water, sanitary conditions and decent healthcare...
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Vermonters Exercise Their Nuclear Option
As radiation poisons areas around Japan's Fukushima Daiichi complex, it also floats and falls across the planet. Even...
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A Spoonful of Subsidies for Big Pharma
Our "socialist" president is doling out welfare payments--unfortunately, to one of the world's most profitable and socially corrupt...
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Urology’s Golden Revenue Stream
It's time to crank up the death panels--no, not for granny. Instead, we need to pull the plug...
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How to Manufacture a Disease
After the FDA approves a new drug, it rarely faces follow-up studies that might reveal serious and possibly...
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Let Them Drink Soda
Surely it is paternalistic to bar the poor from using food stamps to buy soda--as New York City...
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Coal Ash: The Glowing National Security Threat
Like the proverbial broken clock, the nuclear industry is occasionally right, as when it charges that a coal...
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In Vermont, Shades of McCarthy
The state's Republican candidate for governor waves a bogus list—but this time the enemies are prisoners, not communists.
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The Cruel Irony of Organic Standards
The triumph of purist ideology over compassion and science means suffering and death for organic farm animals across...
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BP: Dispersing Oil or Criticism?
Toxic chemicals helped the oil giant save face, but their health and environmental impacts are unknown
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U.S. Nuclear Plants: Old and Incontinent
America's nuclear power plants are more incontinent than a nonagenarian with an enlarged prostate. Given the industry's long...
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BP Bets the Planet—We Lose
As the oil spreads, choking life and livelihood, the hearings and investigations into BP's gulf hemorrhage are focused...
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The Global Volcanic Feedback Loop
Volcanoes can radically alter climates. We know that. But we are now learning that the reverse also holds:...
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Offshoring Human Drug Trials
"That's a great question!" said the presenter, setting off the same sincerity alarm a salesman triggers by constantly...
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Balls, Blows and NFL Eunuchs
America's football players and boxers--the embodiments of aggressively virile masculinity--are the eunuchs of our time. Before you go...
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Death by Privatization
For-profit prison healthcare system implicated in death of inmate.
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Restless Vagina Syndrome
It's not your fault, ladies (and certainly not your partner's), that you don't orgasm every time you have...
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Capitalist Health Insurance for All
Here's what corporations know, but don't want you to find out: Private insurance is for suckers. Armies of...
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Zicam: Homeopathy Fails the Sniff Test
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has caught itself in a trap of precedent and logic that should...
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More Drugs, Please
Few actions so perfectly combine stupidity and cruelty as denying pain relief to the dying because narcotics can...
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Confessions of a Terrorist
Dear Senator Patrick Leahy: I write from my sleeper cell outside Hardwick, Vt., through a constituent I persuaded...
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What Conflict of Interest?
We humans are a sneaky species, but research into how other animals feign death and deceive mates shows...
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All-Consuming Poverty
The upside of the current depression is that Wall Street greed and Washington corruption show as starkly as...
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Forget Marriage—Civil Unions For All
I believe fervently in the sanctity of marriage, and if you do, too, head immediately to your closest...
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Cancer: Cause and Defects
When Sarah Palin says stupid things, they have the virtue of sounding really dumb. Appropriate derision greeted her...
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Regulating Good Government
The world is sighing with relief. The Bush era is dying, but the toxic legacy of America's worst...
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Paving the Road to Hell
Find the common thread and win a free Prozac prescription: Treating cattle for lameness and fever drives vultures...
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High Court May Immunize Big Pharma
The FDA's new "preemption" doctrine jeopardizes consumers' right to sue for drug-caused injuries
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Change We Can Reasonably Assess
Initially, Barack Obama seemed the rare politician with the guts and vision to shred failed systems and to...
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McCain’s Aches and Pains
Like jokes about President Bush being stupid, cheap shots at Sen. John McCain's age are largely unfunny. More...
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On AIDS, Wright Is Wrong
The government lied about inventing the HIV virus as a means of genocide against people of color," the...
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By the Sewers of Babylon
Oh, the humanity! Oh, the gastronomy! Europe and the United States are suffering a tragic shortage of buffalo...
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As Hunger Rises, Chew on This
A diet of bread and water used to be emblematic of poverty. Now a global food crisis is...
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Vermont Argues Iraq War is ‘Mission Expired’
While Congress runs out the clock on President Bush's Iraq War, some Vermont legislators hope to spark a...
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Pig Intestines, Downer Cows
Corruption and incompetence in federal bureaucracies are enough to make your blood run thin. In February, the Food...
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The Malign Magic of Misdirection
It's the oldest trick in the book. The magician flashes the shiny object to misdirect the audience's attention...
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Nanotech: Tiny Particles, Big Risks
Nanotechnology, one of the fastest growing industries in history, is a major threat to human health and the...
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Warning: Drug Ads Can Make You Sick
A $4.2 billion annual drug industry incessantly reinforces the medicalization of complaints through direct-to-consumer (DTC) advertising
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U.S. Lobbyists Assault E.U. Regs
Why is the United States, which practically invented consumer protection, now lagging behind the E.U., and in some cases, trailing Japan, China and Mexico?
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E-Wasting Away in China
While the media ride their new lead-painted hobbyhorse--the danger of Chinese wares--spare a thought for Chinese workers dying to dispose of millions of tons of our toxic crap
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Burned by Flame Retardants
The EPA does almost nothing to regulate the PBDEs we Americans eat, absorb and breath every day
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Climate Change Refugees
As large areas of the planet become unsuitable for human life, the sad stream of climate refugees will become a torrent
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Sicko’s Critics and the Upside of Hitler
Critics of the movie are hooked on pharmaceutical company payouts and part of a system that is rotten to the marrow and should be put out of its misery
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Food Poisoning for Thought
Food regulators in both China and the United States have a financial or career stake in the profitability of the industries they are supposed to oversee
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